Thursday, March 7, 2013
Ancestor Life Comes from Comet?
Headline - Meteoir gliding and pierced the ground, could threaten the living creatures on earth. If you hit a giant in size, can destroy the surrounding territories. Meteor that fell in the city Chelyabinks, Russia, February 15, 2013, is an example of how objects from the sky that can injure and kill. In the event in Russia, at least 1200 people were injured. (Read: Terror Attacks Meteor)
How the Meteor into the earth. Pass through the protective layer of the Earth. Experts are studying. (See: Russian Meteor Explosion infographic). Research on Meteor continues to be studied by experts, including Asteroids and Comets. What is the real difference between the third thing. (Read: Different asteroid, meteoroid, and comet)
Recent publicity about Comet, the study results showed a number of experts is quite surprising. Materials were brought together comet or other celestial body, experts said, triggering the emergence of life on Earth.
On March 7, 2013, The Register launched a new experiment conducted by chemists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawaii. They simulate the component amino acids brought by comets that came to Earth.
Amino acids are known as the molecular basis for life. These substances belong to this class of compounds are the most widely studied because of one very important function in the organism, the building blocks of protein.
The chemists were presented the possibility that a molecule capable of catalyzing the formation of comets brought proteins (polypeptides), enzymes, and even molecules such as sugar.
Previously, scientists often find basic organic molecules, such as amino acids, in many meteorites that have fallen to Earth.
Of fragments that were collected, scientists managed to find a more complex molecular structure is a prerequisite for the life of the Earth.
From the discovery of molecules on a Meteor fragment, scientists assumed that the molecular chemistry of life must have come from the oceans of early Earth. But, in a new trial, emerged a different outcome.
Scienceagogo reported that the researchers used a vacuum chamber cooled to the temperature reaches 10 degrees above zero. This space is used for a mixture of center ice, carbon dioxide, ammonia and various hydrocarbons such as methane, ethane, and propane.
When the chemicals are stimulated by high-energy electrons to simulate cosmic rays in space, these chemicals react to form complex organic compounds.
Then the researchers analyzed the results using the Mars Organic Analyzer. Analyze Mars Organic is an instrument designed as an ultra-sensitive detection. In addition, the instrument also has the ability to identify small organic molecules in the solar system.
The result, in particular, the researchers saw the creation of dipeptides (amino acids pair), which is essential for life on Earth. Further analysis revealed the existence of nine different amino acids and at least two dipeptide.
The researchers said the compound is capable of eliciting biological evolution on Earth.
"It's interesting to consider that the building blocks that trigger biochemical terdasar life on Earth may have originated space," said Richard Mathies, a co-author of the study as well as UC Berkeley chemist.
The results of this experiment has been described in The Astrophysical Journal.
Sources: http://teknologi.news.viva.co.id/news/read/395797
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